C, D, E, F, G & Stories!

It's the end of May, but we are still packing our days with both learning and fun!

All week long we have been continuing our story writing focus. After being inspired by the book Mita's Lost Ball, we wrote our own "lost" stories. What is something we wouldn't want to lose? 

After lots of brainstorming, we spent time completing our story organizer. We use an organizer to help us put our ideas in order. A little editing and illustrating, and we created our own books! This took us all week long, and we are so proud to share our work!

We can't wait to read our work to the Pre-K class next week!

Our ABC Countdown began last week and was in full swing this week!

C - Chalk and Cup Stacking

Coffee? Chaos? Crazy? No, we celebrated letter C with cup stacking challenges and chalk!

We enjoyed sharpening our hand-eye coordination as we stacked cups! Our patterning, sequencing, and perseverance were all strengthened!

Chalk in the sunshine with friends? Yes, please!

D - Dice Games

We tackled an adding game called Dice Wars, and were so excited to use dice IN dice! We each rolled a double die, added our total, and whoever had more took a counter. Gather all 10 counters to win!

Roll to 100, as always, was a hit! 12-sided dice made it even more challenging!

E - Exercise & Environmental Exploration

A Nature Scavenger Hunt  had us outside with our 3R buddy class, exploring God's beautiful Earth! Add "exhaustion" to our letter E day, too!

F - Freeze Dance 

We had a blast showing off our creative dance moves to tunes like Baby Shark and Everything is Awesome! Check out this FREEZE!

G - Green Snacks & Games

We munched some healthy green snacks!

Look at all of the amazing games we brought from home to enjoy! What a great opportunity to play fairly!

It was a wonderful week together! How is it almost June? 

A, B, Seeds!

How many letters in the alphabet? 26! Our ABC Countdown started yesterday, and we'll be adding a little sparkle and zip to each day with activities for each letter!

A - Awesome Authors and Animals

With a stuffed animal under one arm and a favourite book in the other, we relaxed with the letter A! It was a blast reading with our Grade 3 buddies!

B - BINGO

We enjoyed playing our favourite BINGO game, Rhyming Word JINGO!

Seeds!
This week we had a visit from a strange, but highly intelligent individual. You see, Mrs. Beliveau didn't return to class after recess. Hmmm. Rather, Dr. Beliveau arrived in her place, challenging the students to join her in "seed surgery"!

The students have recently begun exploring plants, and today's "surgery" helped us understand that not all seeds look the same! We were surprised that different fruits and vegetables have different amounts of seeds, too! What fun we had performing "surgery" to locate the seeds inside!

We sure enjoyed assisting Dr. Beliveau in "seed surgery"!

Urban & Rural Communities

In Social Studies we are examining many aspects of communities, including mapping and landmarks. This past few weeks we've been comparing urban and rural areas!

After lots of discussion, brainstorming and research, the children were tasked with creating either an urban or a rural community ... all out of plasticene!

We first planned our designs on paper. The criteria for this project was to include at least 3 features of their chosen community, either rural or urban. 

In this rural design, we see lots of trees, a barn, and farm animals!

In this urban design, we see buildings, paved road, and a vehicle.

Then the students got busy creating their plasticene communities! This project provided many opportunities to problem solve and help one another out. This was challenging at first, but also creative and fun! 

We presented our final scenes at Connection Time to a buddy! 

Please watch for the plasticene project, planner, and yellow assessment in your child's kanga!

We {HEART} Moms!

We have many wonderful people caring for us, but we are especially blessed to have our moms in our lives! The children have spent the past two weeks preparing a few very special surprises for Mother's Day!

We each took a beautiful photo and then painted a fancy frame!

Aren't these spectacular?!?

We put together very special cards for our lovely ladies, too. We worked for DAYS to get our ideas just right. Several pages of sweet and funny thoughts and pictures fill these little treasure books. Here are a few creative gems from the pages of the students' cards, as well as our fancy photos! (Spoiler alert: If you haven't opened your child's gift yet, be sure to do that first!)

Moms, you are kind. You are patient. You are selfless. You are imperfectly perfect. Thank you for everything you do to support your family. Being a mom is constantly challenging, yet profoundly rewarding. It is a calling from God and He has a plan for you and your kiddos. May God bless you and your families this Mother's Day weekend!